Bicycle-support for beginners



(No Model) A. H. FALLEN.

BICYCLE SUPPDRT FOR BBGINNEES.

No. 585,590. Patented June 29,1897.

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ALFRED II. PALLEN, OF ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT FOR BEGINNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 585,590, dated June 29, 1897. Application filed November 19, 1896. serial No. 612,763. (No model.)

To [LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED II. PALLEN, a subject of the Queen of England, residing at Athol, in the county of WVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Supports for Beginners; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and usethe same.

My invention has relation to improvements in supports for bicycles for the use of beginners in learning to ride; and the object is to provide a simple and effective device for supporting the machine in an upright position to assist the beginner while he is learningto ride.

To this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same figures of reference indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bicycle, in dotted lines, with my improved support applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a front end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the front fork; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view, partly in section, of one of the lateral supporting-wheel arms.

1 represents the front fork of an ordinary bicycle.

2 is an inverted-U-shaped transverse bar provided with two rearwardly projecting rigid guide-pins 3 3, which fit snugly on each side of the fork to prevent the handle-bar from turning too far to the left or right.

4 4 are threaded studs projecting forwardly from the bar 2, which receive a yoke 5 and the nuts 6 6, by means of which the bar may be rigidly secured to the fork, the central portion of the bar being formed with a semicircular kerf 7 to snugly fit thefront side of the bow S of the fork. A similar kerf 9 receives the opposite side of the bow, and an integral lug 1O lies between the arms of the fork contiguous to the under side of the bow to assist in firmly securing the bar to the fork.

The bar 2 is formed with two lateral dein a toe 23, which is normally held against the shoulder 19 by a leaf-spring 24, secured to the socket 14, the free end of said spring pressing against the back of the leg below its pivotal point. The sides of the tenon 21 are formed with circular rabbeted recesses 25, extending upwardly and rearwardly and terminating in an angular shoulder 26.

The lower end of the leg is bifurcated and supports a small wheel 27, and when the machine is in a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 2, these wheels 27 27 are supported a short distance above the level of the ground or floor.

Should the machine tilt to either side, the corresponding wheel on that side rests upon the ground and the leg gives at its joint until the shoulder 26 comes in contact with. the shoulder 18 on the socket and supports the machine, preventing it from leaning any further in that direction. As soon as the learner has recovered his equilibrium and the pressure is removed from the wheel 27 the spring 24 restores the leg to its normal position, with the toe 23 resting against the shoulder 19 in the socket. Should the machine have a tendency to fall to the opposite side, the wheel 27 on that side supports it until the equilibrium has been restored, and as this is accomplished by the handle-bar and front fork, to which the supporting-arms 12 and 13 are attached and turn with, the learner is as free to manipulate the machine as if the support were wanting.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be, made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination with a bicycle, of the transverse bar 2 provided with the semicircular kerf 7, rigid guide-pins 3 3 and threaded studs 4 4;, the nuts 6 6 and the yoke 5, having the kerf 9 and integral lug 10, the arms 12 and 13 terminating in a socket 14 having parallel ears 15 and 16, a right-angular shoulder 18, and a shoulder 19 in the forward end of the socket between said ears, the leg 20 In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED H. FALLEN. Witnesses:

GEORGE MCKNIGHT, GEORGE T. JARDINE. 

